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Fun

My interests in language, math, and computers were sparked and strengthened by exposure to the works of Willard R. Espy, Louis Phillips, Mike Keith, Dmitri Borgmann, Jim Butterfield, and others. These writers share a great talent for making technical or linguistic topics fun and accessible to a general audience. This page collects some of my own contributions to popular and recreational mathematics and linguistics, plus a few other odds and ends.

Willard R. Espy

Louis Phillips

Mike Keith

Dmitri Borgmann

Jim Butterfield

Logology

Logology, or recreational linguistics, is the study and practice of word games and wordplay. Since 2012 I've been writing the Language Games column for Babel: The Language Magazine, and I am a regular contributor of language-themed articles and puzzles to Lingo: The Language Magazine for Younger Readers, Games World of Puzzles (formerly Games Magazine), Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, and other magazines.

Logology

Babel: The Language Magazine

Lingo: The Language Magazine for Younger Readers

Games World of Puzzles

Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics

Shakespeare's Sonnet Generator

Pessimal spelling alphabets

Russian–English homoglyphs, homographs, and homographic translations

Dvorak typewriter words

Perfect Roman windows

The world's shortest personal names

Unigraphic lipogrammatic windows: A survey

Higher-order contronyms

Elemental words revisited

Gadsby: Wikipedia's lost lipogram

Ichthyornithonomy

Recreational mathematics

These papers are mainly for fun, though some of them have some serious research content:

Why I will never have a girlfriend

Warum ich niemals eine Freundin haben werde

Knight-graphable words

A255436: Number of distinct, connected, order-n subgraphs of the infinite knight's graph

New puzzles on knight-graphable words

Light verse

A selection of my humorous poetry:

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